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Scaphura nigra
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Description
Scaphura nigra (Thunberg, 1824)
Fig. 19G, H
Distribution: Argentina: Misiones, Tucumán; Brazil: Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo; Paraguai: Paraguari.
New record for the Paraná State.
Comments: This species, as other within Scaphura, presents mimetic polymorphism that represents a Batesian mimic of wasps (Pompilidae: Entypus Dahlbom, 1843 and Pepsis Fabricius, 1804; Vespidae: Polistes Ashmead, 1904), serving as a model to behavioural and evolutionary ecology studies (Del-Claro 1991). We only recorded specimens similar to the Pepsis pattern (Del-Claro 1991, Del-Claro & Vasconcellos-Neto 1992).
Bioacoustics: Sound not recorded.
Notes
Published as part of Fianco, Marcos, Szinwelski, Neucir & Faria, Luiz R. R., 2022, Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5136 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5136.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550041
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thunberg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Genus
- Scaphura
- Species
- nigra
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scaphura nigra (Thunberg, 1824) sec. Fianco, Szinwelski & Faria, 2022
References
- Ashmead, W. H. (1904) Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 28 (1387), 127 - 158. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.28 - 1387.127
- Del-Claro, K. (1991) Polimorfismo mimetico de Scaphura nigra Thunberg, 1824 (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Dissertacao de Mestrado, Programa de Pos-graduacao em Ecologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo, 75 pp.
- Del-Claro, K. & Vasconcellos-Neto, J. (1992) Os padroes de coloracao animal: exemplos na Serra do Japi. In: Morellato, L. C. P. Historia Natural da Serra do Japi: ecologia e preservacao de uma area florestal no Sudeste do Brasil. Editora da UNI- CAMP / FAPESP, Campinas, pp. 288 - 308.